You’re right, but that would be at Illinois where he needs the waiver...NOT Miami. Assuming he hasn’t signed something which precludes him from coming back to Miami, and assuming that he can do his coursework, he could come back to Miami and play this year.
And Miami is his best chance of playing this year, and trying to get a waiver in Illinois a crapshoot. Ivins knows all this. Anybody knows all this.
The bottom line is this, I have yet to see anything that would make me think this is seriously happening. I think you’ve got a bunch of local reporters reporting message board rumors. I might be wrong about that, but I wonder what “sources“ they actually have.
I just don’t trust the local reporters, even the newspaper ones. I trust people like Stefan more, to be honest with you